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He said Smith had two horses that he would sell straight away and added that his client usually worked as a handyman but had not had a job since his arrest.

He said: "Word has got around the area."

Smith, who had first pleaded guilty to the offence of sex with a living animal at Hinckley Magistrates’ Court earlier this year, was given a four-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.

He was given a 10-year-old ban from contact with animals or acquiring children’s clothes or nappies.

He was also ordered to pay £200 court costs and made subject to a restraining order banning him from contacting Ruby’s owner or her daughter, or going to her stables in the next five years.